Welcome to Journey from Jacob. From our first
breath to our last heartbeat, we are all on a
journey. Jacob was a biblical character whose
journey is documented for our benefit. Like all
of us, there were unforgettable moments along
the way which required decisiveness. One of those
decisions determined his destination. We will
not only discuss Jacob's journey, but Israel's
as well, right up to date. May this podcast inspire
you to make choices along your way that will
benefit others and guide you to the destination
we all long for. because we're in this together.
One of the challenges of the message of the Gospel
is to communicate what is spiritual in nature,
but we live in this physical world, this natural
world, and we cannot over -spiritualize things,
but the tendency is to ignore the spiritual because
it's a little bit more difficult to understand.
In fact, it's impossible to understand if we're
not born again. The Bible says that very clearly.
We need to be able to be spiritually reborn in
order to understand spiritual things. But spiritual
things can't be up in the sky somewhere. They
have to be at street level. We have to take what
we've learned and it has to be authentic enough
that when we show up on the street, when we show
up in conversations, when we talk or write or
communicate, people could see that there's something
attractive about it because we are, by nature,
human beings are spiritual. And so we're made
in the image of God. And that's where we really
need to start, because that's where the story
starts, in the garden. We don't know what happened
before that, that speculation, but we're taught
from God, through His prophets, apostles, and
the writers of both Old and New Testament, we're
taught things that are spiritual in nature, but
they happen in real time, in real life, and it
becomes our history, if we are believers, biblical
history. So the spiritual element must be highlighted
and understood. Because if it's not, we won't
be able to comprehend what's going on in these
challenging times that we live in. This is one
of the highly charged portions of human history
that we're living in now. And I could give many
reasons, but the Bible has given indications
of what it would be like in the days preceding
Jesus' return. And many of those things are clear
marks of the culture and civilization that we
now live in, both in the West and the East, in
fact. everywhere in the world has sense of understanding
because we're so well communicated now. So we
need to be careful how we communicate, but that
doesn't mean that we should not attempt things
that may be difficult to understand. And what
I want to share today, I'm asking you to really
give your complete attention to, because it's
going to have some repetition to it maybe, but
don't get tired of that, because we need to cement
these. Certain things have to be cemented in
as you would a cement block to a foundation.
in order for us to build upon. So we don't want
to be caught empty handed. When the times of
troubling times come, which they will, Jesus
promised it, in this world we will have troubles,
we will have tribulation, but to be of good cheer
because He has overcome the world and He has
made His people overcomers. So if you're a Jew,
if you're a Gentile, if you believe in Jesus
as the Messiah, Yeshua, Hamashiach, then you're
spiritually born from above and you're given
this ability. to discern and to know if it's
right or not and dismiss those things that are
not and embrace those things that are. So we
don't want to retreat. This is one of the things
I've discovered that because we have troubles
in this world and that could be as small as,
you know, you just dropped a plate and it broke
on the ground and you say, oh man, that must
be Satan. He's out to get me. Or you're confronted
with a terrible illness and a family member.
And you're saying, well, is that Satan or not?
And you want to be able to know what is next.
What do you expect? Do you take authority over
him? Or do you just live in this world that is
broken? And we should expect certain things.
We need to know the difference between what is
spiritually of origin and what is just... part
of a fallen world that we live in. And we will
live without this frustration of trying to nail
everything down so tight that we can understand
it. Because one of the things that I repeat often
from the Proverbs, actually this one's from Chapter
4, it's, So it means, do not lean on your understanding.
First, trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding. This
is where we need to be able to live with things
we cannot understand, but trust God with all
our hearts so that we can know that the outcome,
whatever it is, in whatever part I have to play
in it, God will show me and I'll be able to walk
in it. So there's a chapter that we went from
chapter 14 to chapter 15 last time. This is a
spiritually charged moment of biblical history.
Abraham came back from this war that was going
on with five kings against four kings, but in
the process his nephew Lot was taken captive
with his family and all his possessions. Abraham
supercharged and said, I got to do something
about this. This is my son by adoption, but he
had no children. God had promised him that he's
gonna have all these children, remember? And
he had none, but he considered Lot his adopted
son because his brother died and he took responsibility
for Lot. Now, Lot's an adult. He has a family
of his own. But still, Abraham went with the
people in his family, in his household. 318,
I believe, of his servants were trained for battle.
And they went up there where this war was going
on between these four and five kings. And he
rescued his son Lot and all his possessions comes
back. He's confronted with two different men.
They seem like men. Both are kings. One is the
king of Salem and also the king of righteousness.
Salam and Sadeq. Peace and righteousness. Who
is this king? Well, his name is Melchizedek.
We read in the Bible about this Melchizedek both
in the Psalms and also in the book of Hebrews.
And so he's referred to as either likened unto
Jesus. Jesus is likened unto Melchizedek. or
he's actually Jesus incarnate. It's called the
Theophany, where Jesus appears in the Old Testament
before the incarnation, which is Christmas. So
I have the tendency, and I do believe, that this
is an actual theophany, it's Jesus himself. He's
met with Jesus, he approaches him with wine and
bread, and he gives it to Abram to partake of,
and it's a clear symbol of what we do when we
celebrate Communion, and also the Passover. So
here's Abram with this King of Righteousness,
the King of Peace, and he gives him a tenth of
all his possessions, and it's basically where
we get the tithe from, but he had a lot of possessions
at the time especially. So he gives it to him,
generously, willingly, out of his heart, because
he believes that this is more than a man he's
talking to. And they have this relationship that
begins. But then the kingdom Sodom shows up and
he says to Abram, he said, regarding what just
happened, he just rescued Lot in his possessions,
he says to Abraham, you keep the possessions,
the stuff, I want the people, that's the deal.
And Abram says, no way. There's no way I'm going
to give you anything. I wouldn't give you a thread
off my shoelace. Lest you would say that you,
the King of Sodom, made me rich. Which can't
be. It's God. He attributes his whole life to
God. And God has accredited his belief, his trust.
as righteousness. Not what he's done to please
God, not sacrifice or anything else, but just
his humble nature before God to believe him.
He says, that's all it takes. I accredit it to
you for righteousness. Interesting, the New Testament
speaks about Jesus becoming righteousness for
us, for those who believe. But this is the last
thing that happens in chapter 14. And then chapter
15 opens up. It says that God appeared to Abram
in a dream. in a vision, I'm sorry, and said,
Abram, do not be afraid. I am your shield and
exceedingly great reward. Now, we don't see Abram
afraid. Why all of a sudden he's afraid? God
sees this. He's afraid. And the reason is very
clear. If we look back and see what did Abram
just do? Now, I believe that the King of Sodom
was not just the King of Sodom. If Jesus can
have a theophany, then certainly the devil can
have his own kind of, not theophany, but he's
the God of this world. So, in a sense, with a
little t, maybe we could say that, but he's certainly
not God. But why couldn't he appear as a man?
because we're told in the New Testament that,
beware, that Satan appears as an angel of light,
and when he says to entertain strangers, he said,
because you might be entertaining angels unaware.
So if angels could look like people, and Satan
can become an angel of light, certainly he could
appear before his time, so to speak, as a person
that Abram just considered he was the King of
Sodom. King of Sodom would have been bad enough.
The guy was obviously demon -possessed. When
we get to the activity that's going on, we learn
that Sodom was a wicked place, and it was filled
with evil, and that unfortunately was the land
next to where Lot chose to live. So it's almost
like you could say, well, he was right there
on the edge of Sodom. He deserves to be taken,
but he doesn't. not in Abraham's eyes, because
Abraham was called to be a blessing and that
begins in your family. And so part of the blessing
is God's gonna mount what he needs to live life
properly, which at that time was a large army
and he had in his household. So he did what he
had to do, he rescues him, but now Satan, I believe,
is the king of Sodom, king of evil, the king
of lies and injustice and thievery and cursing
and everything wrong with this world is who Satan
is. And Abraham had just spoken to him. He spoke
to the forces of power. He spoke truth to him,
that I will not take anything of yours. So Abram
treasured the relationship he had with Lot, and
he was not going to jeopardize that with this
temptation to take all the stuff that Satan was
offering, and he goes on, but then we see that
he's afraid. And I think he started to consider
these things, and with his own understanding
he ended up being very afraid. And so God is
trying to... revert him back to his state of
belief, of faith, and telling him, do not be
afraid. I am with you. I am your exceedingly
great reward. You need nothing more, Abram, than
me. And so that's how Chapter 15 begins. But
then it goes on, it's an amazing chapter, because
this is the chapter where God promises Abram
all the land that is now Israel, and even more,
much more, is going to be yours, Abram, and your
descendants, meaning Isaac and Jacob forever.
And you will have people, you have a generation
after generation after generation of children
that we, the Bible calls that seed, or Zerah
in Hebrew, that are going to be forever. Your
people are going to be forever, the land is going
to be your people's possession forever. This
is a supercharged conversation going on between
God and Abram, and Satan is, there's nowhere
to be seen except... when it's time to cut this
covenant, and Abraham's told to lay out all these
different animal parts and line them up together,
and that typically in that culture, if they were
going to cut covenant, they would both walk through
this sacrifice while it was burning, and that
was to signify that they both agreed to this
covenant. If one of us breaks this covenant,
let him be like the pieces of the sacrifice,
which means they wouldn't exist anymore. But
God puts Abraham to sleep, because this covenant
is way too big for Abraham to participate in.
He puts him to sleep, and through this sacrifice,
this blazing torch walks through it and consumes
the sacrifice. And that's just a picture of God.
He doesn't have to walk through it like we would
see, humanly speaking. But that was symbolic
of Him going through this sacrifice. It was made.
It was cut. Hebrews 6 backs this all up, that
these two things, that God cannot lie, He makes
with the covenant, with the promise. This is
yours, Abraham. It's yours. So then Abraham,
though, was told that before he was put to sleep,
they had this dissension, this descending birds
of prey trying to eat the sacrifice, and Abraham,
his position, his job, responsibility was to
chase these birds of prey away. Now this is where
the symbolism comes in. They were birds, but
they were symbolic and most likely possessed
by demons, or they were demons themselves in
bird form. and they inhabited, just like Satan
appeared as a serpent or a snake, these birds,
these vultures, these birds of prey, tried to
destroy what God was doing at the sacrifice,
but Abram courageously chased them away, and
the sacrifice went on, but Abram was put to sleep.
And it said that dreadful terror came over him.
It was like deep, deep darkness. So this is a
spiritually charged moment, but it affects all
of church life. ever since, and it affects all
of human life ever since. Because what is, where
has the world's attention been ever since 1948,
and prior to, before Israel was scattered, the
Jews were scattered in the first century, up
until 1948, when they became a nation, they were
the center of commotion, at the very least, throughout
time, but also the center of this Middle East
war. turmoil that has never been solved, and
still is not solved, by the way. But this is
where all this is taking place, in this land
that God has given him. So everything needs to
be thought of, thought through, because God wrote
this story, and it's for our benefits to understand
it, because it's a spiritually charged story,
and these two chapters are incredibly supercharged
with spiritual darkness trying to interrupt God's
will. break his will. As Jesus would call it,
the word of God cannot be broken. So this is
God's word. His prophecies, his promises, it's
all God's word. It originates in him and Satan
is trying all he has to disrupt it. We need to
understand this. This is where the story starts.
Genesis 12 is where God introduces Abram as the
patriarch of the faith, the father of our faith.
And if we bless Abraham and his descendants,
God promises that we will be blessed, and that
becomes our choice, meaning everyone. It doesn't
mean you're a believer or not, but how do you
bless him? That should be a question that every
Christian asks himself. How do I bless Abraham's
descendants? Because God said I've made him a
blessing to be a blessing to all the families
of the earth, and I want to be a part of that
because this is where peace comes. This is where
peace comes into the world through this blessing
that has been given to the Jewish people beginning
with Abraham, then Isaac and Jacob. So, I need
to highlight really why we are even having this
podcast as Comfort My People, because our vision
is to share the love of Yeshua, Jesus, to the
Jewish people in Israel and beyond. They have
been without the Gospel for 2 ,000 years. They
never have since the early Church. And the New
Testament wasn't even written. It was in process
because The Jewish believers were the disciples
of Jesus and those who got saved immediately
after Pentecost, three thousand once, another
five thousand a few days later, and it kept growing.
It was a Jewish church. It was all Jewish, until
the Gentiles started hearing it and wanting in,
and they were welcomed in. There was a big council
in Acts 15, but the consensus was that bring
these Gentiles in. If they want to get saved,
bring them in. This is what we're called to be,
a light to the nations. This is what we are.
We're being a light. to the nations in Hebrew
is Goyim. That's Gentiles. Isaiah spoke, the
prophets spoke, and God promised through prophecy
in the beginning that He's going to make the
two one. Who are the two one? It's not Adam and
Eve because they were one, and He broke them
up. They're supposed to, they will become one.
spiritually as husband and wife, that's a prophecy
too. But the greater sense of that prophecy is
that the two most unlikely groups of people,
cultures and civilizations would merge as one,
and that is Jew and Gentile. Much more to say,
but this is one of the main focuses of Comfort
My People. So it began, our initial calling was
to bring the Gospel to the Jewish people in Israel
and beyond through the indigenous believers that
we support, we were to support them. And so our
vision never changed, but it has expanded because
there's so much confusion in the Church of what
this means that we need to be able to inform
biblically what it means to have this merge of
unlikely people groups, Jew and Gentile, much
to say about that. together as one, but God calls
it His eternal purpose. And that's been missing
in the conversation of Church education ever
since the beginning. It began in the book of
Ephesians, literally it was initiated and spoken
of, of the One New Man, the eternal purpose of
God, His masterpiece. It's a manifold witness
of the wisdom of God to the spiritual forces
in darkness. That's what it was intended to be.
Jew and Gentile combined make up the Church and
they're a force against the darkness of this
world. That's what God called us to be. So it
didn't happen. But this portion of scripture
I want to highlight because it's the beginning
of our faith. If you call Abraham the father
of your faith, I'm not talking to Muslims now,
I'm talking about Christians and Jews who believe
the Bible, not the Quran. that Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob are the fathers, plural, of our faith.
So, that said, the thing that has been ignored
needs to be come to the table, and this is why
we're going to be leaning on the concept of the
One New Man consistently, because it's been either
ignored, misunderstood, or avoided purposely,
and this is the work of the enemy. It has to
be broken. yet has to be broken and confronted.
You've got to be courageous to do this, but God
will give the courage to believe him in times
of trouble, not to lean on our own unstanding,
which is the tendency. We can't. So, by the way,
this is a message that is not very welcomed.
In fact, it's often challenged, and it's if we
want to raise money to support our partners in
Israel, this is the worst approach possible,
because we are coming against what's been taught
in the churches for way too long, is that God
is done with the Jews, the church has replaced
it, the Jews are not the same Jews in the Bible,
Israel's not the same Israel in the Bible, and
the church has become symbolically and spiritually
Israel and the Jews. That's a false teaching,
but yet it continues to be taught, and it's way
too widespread. So we are here to extend the
Abrahamic blessing so that all the families of
the earth will receive the gospel. That is the
blessing. That's the heart of the blessing. Yeshua
died so that blessing that could be for all mankind,
but it has to be spread properly. I want to give
you an example, and we're going to go on with
this perspective into our next podcast which
will be about Revelation chapter 12. So you might
want to read that in the process if you're following
us because it's actually a Christmas scene. It
starts out with this Christmas scene and I didn't
want to talk about it prior to Christmas or even
now because Christmas is close behind and we
want to keep that light -headed spirit and atmosphere
going. But we're going to talk to it next week
because it too is an untaught portion of scripture
and it needs to be understood. But right now
I want to give you an illustration. It's a real
-life experience because it began on, to me the
story began on Christmas Eve 2004. My father
died. Before that though I need to speak about
him because this is going to tie together, I
hope you'll see what I'm getting at, is that
my father was born in Belarus to a very poor
Jewish family and He was the last child, but
he was a twin. He had a sister, but there was
one boy, the oldest son. He was the only son
at the time. He died when he was five, and my
father was born not long after that. So they
lived in poverty. My grandfather, his father,
was a prisoner of war in Russia, in prison, prison
war camp. And he did not leave Belarus where
they lived. They were being assaulted like on
a constant basis from pogroms coming out of Russia.
especially, but also Poland. And so they fled,
but my grandfather was still in prison. He followed
maybe three years later. So my father grew up,
they made it to New York. My father was young,
but he started selling peanuts on the street
because they needed to have money and buy food
on the table. So he learned to be not a tough
guy, but he learned to be resilient. He learned
to be a hard worker and he had great common sense.
But he also knew that the persecution that they
had faced and continued to face was mostly coming
from so -called Christians, people who called
themselves Christians. It was the only Christians
they knew. Let me put it that way. So Jesus was
a curse word because they were considered, not
that they cursed Jesus, but they were considered
to be murderers of Jesus. The Jews killed Christ.
It was common knowledge throughout Europe and
Russia and that's what Christians lived by. So
my father grew up in that atmosphere and he had
experienced anti -semitism firsthand, even in
their own homes. So they left, they fled. So
my father, he never went to college. I'm not
sure if he even graduated high school, but he
had common sense, a lot of it. And he did what
he had to do just as a child. His childhood was
kind of abrupted because he had to earn a living
selling peanuts until he was chased away by cops
because he had no license. But in 1940, he was
drafted into the Army. And the branch he was
in was the Calvary. He was in the 5th Calvary.
And he became a staff sergeant in charge of an
artillery platoon. They had 50 caliber rifles,
50 millimeter machine guns, I mean, big, big
guns. and very loud, and so he was in charge
of this platoon that was operating that way,
infantry in the Far East, in the Philippines.
So he saw a lot, a lot, and he never would talk
about his experience. I knew, you know, all the
details of where he was and when he was, but
he wouldn't talk about any episodes, day -to
-day things. I asked him, though, why did you
change your name? His name was, his birth name
was Rabinowitz, and he changed it to Robbins,
and All they told me is that I changed it because
I didn't want my children to fight for their
name, just because of their name, because that
meant that they were Jews and it was a Jewish
name. So I wanted to somehow avoid that and changed
it, made it simpler. And when they came over
to Ellis Island, his father didn't change it.
He changed it when he came out of the army in
the 40s, 1945. But it never worked. He wanted
that to happen, but it never worked because I
ended up, when I grew up, fighting because I
was a Jew. And because, you know what, anti -Semites
know Jews. Piddler asked Hitler, he knew where
a Jew was, you know, he could send some miles
away. But, nevertheless, anti -Semitism he was
very familiar with. So, when I was 29, I came
to faith in Jesus. I'd like to tell that story,
but I'll stop there. I came to faith, as far
as details go, and the first person I wanted
to tell was my father. Because I knew he had
a troubled life, and I knew that Jesus was a
mystery to him, as it was to me. because no one
ever shared the gospel with me. I thought Jesus
was Catholic, actually. And so when I got this
information, when it came real to me that Jesus
was real, He was God, He was incarnate. I was
born again. I knew that. I didn't know the terms
or anything. But when I first got saved, I made
it to His house. It was hard because I had a
hitchhike there and it was night and our car
didn't work and stuff, but I needed to tell Him
as fast as I could and I did. So my wife and
I had already started meeting Christians because
our neighbor said we should go to this church
and we did and we started meeting real Christians
who loved the Jews and Jewish people and I get
my father alone. He's in the basement. We're
talking. I'm telling him, Dad, I got to tell
you about Jesus. I came to faith in him. He's
like, what? What are you talking about? And so
I started to explain to him and I met these Christians.
They love Jews and they love Israel. He goes,
Paul, Paul, let me tell you something. If you
scratch a Gentile deep enough, they will bleed
anti -Semitism. I don't care what they say now,
how they act, you gotta get smart here. And I'm
like, no dad, these people are the real deal.
So that was the foundation of my conversation
with him. Many, many, many times he and I would
meet for lunch in a diner in New York and I would
talk to him. I would ask him if we could meet
and he would and he liked, you know, to talk.
And I would explain to him what I believe. Now,
he was an atheist. He was the only real atheist
I knew because his atheism came from he couldn't
believe there could be a God. It's not that he
chose not to believe in God. He couldn't believe
there could be a God because of all the evil
in the world. And he and his family had experienced
it personally. So I had to convince him that
number one, there is a God, and number two, that
Jesus is God. And so we would sit in this diner,
one after the other, and then... share the gospel,
and then have coffee, and then have more coffee,
and I'd share, but I'd start from Abraham, and
I'd start from Genesis, and I'd go all the way
through into the New Testament, and almost every
time he'd use these words, Paul, I'm glad this
makes you happy, but come back when I'm 80, and
maybe I'll think about it, but it's not for me.
And he'd end there, and we'd go to our cars,
and I'd feel so spiritually drained that sometimes
I couldn't even stand up or walk, and I had to
wait for him to leave, actually. One time I actually
fell to my... buckled over, spiritually drained.
And so this went on for so long. But fast forward
way into the future. He's in his 80s and he has
contracted a disease called atypical Parkinson's
and he had it for nine years. My mother died
a few years later. He came down with this and
he what it did is it shut down every muscle system
in his body one by one to the point where he
couldn't do anything. He was he was constrained
to a bed. in a veteran's home in New York. And
yeah, he just couldn't do anything. He couldn't
even read the paper, which he loved to read the
paper, or watch TV. He couldn't lift up his head.
Everything had to be done for him. So prior to
this, I had made a board called an alphabet board
that was made out of wood. And I had put all
the letters of the alphabet along with questions
for the nurses so that he wouldn't have to struggle
trying to communicate because he couldn't. He
kept getting worse that, you know, I'm hungry,
I'm thirsty, I need to go to the bathroom. And
then there was an alphabet he could point to
the letters, things like that. And he could do
that for for a couple of years or a few years
he did well but as his muscle systems broke down
he could no longer do that. So we had moved by
that time about eight nine hours away from where
he lived in New York and it was coming up to
Father's Day and I felt compelled to go to see
him. I had to go and so I told my wife we got
to go it's from the Father's Day we got to be
there and so it was a long journey but we got
there. and made it for Father's Day. And the
reason I had to go because I was consumed, what
does my father think about? Because he had rejected
Jesus for so many years now, 30. And I said,
what does he think about? Because I know he's
got bad thoughts and this is all he's left with.
He can't do anything else. So I tell him this.
I said, Dad, I need to know what you're thinking
about." And it was a crazy thing to ask him because
he couldn't answer me, but I felt I had to ask
him. So with his big eyes, he starts moving because
he can't speak, he can't point his eyes towards
the corner of the room. And I go to the corner
of the room and there's nothing there except
medical equipment on a table that the nurses
kept. And so I'm moving through everything on
the table to find something. I don't see anything
that he could be talking about. What is he talking
about? I come back. I say, I got nothing, Dad.
With his eyes again, Go, go again. So I go back
there and I see this alphabet board was buried
underneath the stuff. And I say, he can't mean
this. And I bring it over there and he opens
his eyes wide and he says, yeah, you know, like
he's telling me, yes, yes. And I'm like, this
is going to be the most frustrating experience.
And so I put it on his lap. I didn't have a pointer,
so I sort of drilled the pencil through his fist
because it was so tightly closed. So a point
would come out the end and right away he begins
to point and he does this. E S U S and then he
looks at me puts his hand down and I'm telling
you something he hit bullseye on each one of
those letters and if my wife was not there with
me no one would believe this and we looked at
each other like are you kidding me and I said
dad you've been thinking about Jesus and he goes
yes with his eyes and I said does that mean you
want to receive him because I'd spoken so much
about him and he gives me these yes eyes so we
led him to faith now Some people say, well, you
know, he's dying and all. Well, he lived for
another six months. And that's when he died on
Christmas Eve. And there was reasons for me to
tell, which I can't with this time, that to believe
that he was definitely a believer. So when Christmas
Eve came, that's by the way that he died the
next day, a day later was the worst tsunami that
ever hit the face of the earth. And 200 and some
odd thousand people died from in that process
of the tsunami in Indonesia and beyond. And that's
almost the same amount of combat soldiers that
died in World War II. So that's how intense this
spiritual atmosphere was in my life that he died
and right after that was this incredible tsunami.
And I'm not saying one caused the other or anything
like that, but it's just the electrically charged
spiritual atmosphere. And here's why I'm saying
that. Because My father did not believe. He didn't
believe what I said. No matter what I said with
the Bible, he never accepted. But I brought my
friends with... Now, I'm a contractor at the
time. And where he worked, they needed some work.
And they hired me for specific jobs, projects,
to do the carpentry and building and renovation
stuff. And I would bring my friends with me who
were all believers. They were Christians. They
were Gentiles. And my father loved them. They
were so kind to him. They were loving to him.
and they would share Jesus the Messiah in a very
careful way because they knew based on me instructing
them about things that's so different about the
Jews and their relationship to Jesus. And they
were so careful but so kind and loving and we
got along. He saw the love that we had for each
other. And I believe that is what brought him
to faith. And so this is what I want you to consider
because this is the biblical way of doing things
when it comes to the Jews. Speak comfort to them.
Isaiah 40 verse 1 and 2. Please read that over
a hundred times till you understand what it means.
Isaiah 40 verse 1 and 2. This is where we get
our name. Comfort my people. But above all things,
I want to leave you with that when you do believe,
when you do trust completely, the word of God
becomes alive to you. When you apply the word
of God to your relationship, not just with God,
but with his people, who he initially called
his chosen people. It doesn't mean Christians
are not chosen. But the Jews were the chosen
people, and they were chosen for a purpose, which
is to bring the blessing of Abraham, which is
a message of peace, joy, and spiritual life that
will be a force that the enemy cannot stand against.
This is where we need to head as believers, and
this is where our emphasis is going to be throughout
this journey from Jacob. Shalom, shalom. We bless
you for taking the time to consider this message.
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